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For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – August 26, 2010 – Zacks.com Analyst Blog features: D.R. Horton (DHI), Weyerhaeuser (WY), USG (USG), Fortune Brands (FO) and American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (AEO ). Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog: Worst New Home Sales EVER! New Home Sales fell...

Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) on September 1, 2010, will be paying its special dividend worth $5.6 billion, with cash payments restricted to 10% or $560 million. Shareholders of record as on July 22 were given options for stock or cash payments.   Of the eligible shareholders, roughly 66% holding 138.9...

So far, the morning trading session has spent most of its time trading in a narrowing channel. Nonetheless, I don't believe this sell-off is by any means done and over with, so I'm giving you three short setups you should be watching. Each of these provides a very nice set-up with a lot of downward...

Cusick’s Corner Barring a headline overnight (or early in tomorrow’s session), all that we really have is equity options expiration, which at this stage should not add too much volatility unless the above happens. Bond yields did rebound into the After Hours which seemed to have helped equities...

Shares of Louisiana Pacific Corp. (NYSE: LPX) are lower on the session by 3.06%, currently trading at $6.96. The stock has been moving largely sideways for the past three months, though looks like it may be in a bottoming pattern. Options traders are buying protection on the name today. The August...

The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing index fell in July to 55.5 from 56.2, but the decline was far less than the expected level of 54.2. Any reading over 50 indicates that the manufacturing sector of the economy is expanding. Thus the expansion continues, but at a somewhat...

Cusick’s Corner Tech, NASDAQ continues to be under pressure and is lagging the other two major indices -- S&P and RUT. Tech needs to start to challenge that 2300 level on the NAZ Composite. The latter two indices may have confirmed a bounce in the 10 week retracement, clustering at key levels...

Shares of Louisiana Pacific Corp. (NYSE: LPX) are lower on the session by 6.50%, currently trading at $7.48. The stock is moving lower today as EPS missed and the company issued cautious guidance. Options traders are selling out of their long call positions today. The August $9.00 call was sold 26...

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) released financial results on Monday morning that easily beat Wall Street estimates. Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) announced that it swung to a 2nd quarter profit, reporting earnings of $14 million, or 7 cents per share, from a net loss of $106 million, or 50 cents per...

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) reports Q2 earnings of $0.20 versus estimates of $0.14. Weyerhaeuser Company reports Q2 revenues of $1.81 billion versus estimates of $1.68 billion. WY’s shares gained 1.16% to $16.68 in after-hours trading. Read more from Benzinga's Company news.

Among the companies that are reporting results today are: Analysts are expecting Merck & Co Inc (NYSE: MRK) to have earned $0.83 per share on revenue of $11.47 billion in the second quarter. MRK’s shares gained 0.63% to $35.28 in after-hours trading. Aon Corp (NYSE: AON) may post its Q2 EPS at...

Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE: GNW) rose 6.33% to $14.78 in the pre-market session. GNW is all set to report its quarterly results on July 29. Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) added 2.62% to $93.75 in pre-market trading. WHR has posted a two-fold increase in its Q2 earnings and raised its outlook...

Last week, the Dow, S&P500 and Nasdaq each gained more than 5% as investors re entered the market, with expectations for better corporate earnings in the second quarter, after the two month sell-off. However, market observers are, for the most part, unclear about whether the market’s upward...